Poster boy : a memoir of art and politics

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Label

Poster boy : a memoir of art and politics

Title remainder

a memoir of art and politics

Statement of responsibility

Peter Drew

Creator

• trueDrew, Peter, 1983-

Author

• trueDrew, Peter, 1983-

Subject

• trueArt and politics
• Art and popular culture -- Australia
• trueArtists
• trueArtists -- Australia -- Biography
• trueAustralia -- Immigration and emigration
• Australia -- Politics and goverment -- 2001-
• Australia -- Politics and goverment -- 21st century
• trueAustralia -- Politics and government
• trueAustralia -- Politics and government -- 21st century
• trueAustralian
• Drew, Peter
• Drew, Peter, 1983-
• trueFamily relationships
• trueAdelaide, South Australia
• trueFathers and sons -- Australia
• Graphic artists -- Australia -- Biography
• trueIdentity (Psychology)
• trueImmigrants -- Australia
• trueIntergenerational relations
• truePolitical culture
• Political posters -- 21st century
• Posters -- 21st century
• truePublic art
• trueRadical art
• trueToleration
• trueToxic masculinity
• trueFathers and sons
• Art -- Social aspects

Genre

• trueBiography

Language

eng

Summary

'When you're sneaking around the city at night you feel like a kid again. The seriousness of the world is unmasked as a series of facades, dead objects just waiting to be painted. I was immediately hooked. Out on the street I could say anything I wanted. So what did I want to say?' Peter Drew's posters are a familiar sight across Australia - his 'Real Australians Say Welcome' and 'Aussie' campaigns took on lives of their own, attaining cult status and starting conversations all over the country. But who made them, and why? In this irresistible and unexpected memoir, Peter Drew searches for the answers to these questions. He traces the links between his creative and personal lives, and discovers surprising parallels between Australia's dark, unacknowledged past and the unspoken conflict at the core of his own family. Packed full of Peter Drew's memorable images, Poster Boy is an intelligent, funny and brutally honest dive into the stew of individual, family and national identity. It's about politics and art, and why we need them both. And it's about making a mark

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

YDX

Dewey number

759.994

Illustrations

• illustrations
• portraits

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction